Examples of the types of items we will tweet about at Language_Today and discuss with regard to language, literacy, & culture. Please add to the page over the course of the semester.
Videos
DYSA: Dialect Jeopardy
Voices of NC Excerpt on African-American English
Voices of NC Excerpt on Outer Banks English
Voices of NC Excerpt on Cherokee Language
Resources
- Language Diversity and the Public Interest (pdf) by Walt Wolfram (This gives a good overview and mentions some good resources for teachers, including information on the Voices of North Carolina 8th grade curriculum, which is accessable here.)
Videos
DYSA: Dialect Jeopardy
Voices of NC Excerpt on African-American English
Voices of NC Excerpt on Outer Banks English
Voices of NC Excerpt on Cherokee Language
Resources
- Language Diversity and the Public Interest (pdf) by Walt Wolfram
(This gives a good overview and mentions some good resources for teachers, including information on the Voices of North Carolina 8th grade curriculum, which is accessable here.)
- NCSU Dialect Education Portal: http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/dialecteducation.php
- LearnNC Lesson on Outer Banks English: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4811
- LearnNC Lesson on Spanish and Hispanic Language in NC: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4831
- The North Carolina Language and Life Project: http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/ncllp/index.php
Words of the Year
- American Dialectic Society Word of the Year 2012: Hashtag
- Merriam-Webster Word(s) of the Year 2011: Pragmatic
- American Dialect Society 2010 Word of the Year: App
- Oxford 2010 Word of the Year: Refudiate
- American Dialect Society 2009 Word of Year and Word of the Decade: Tweet (2009); Google (2000-2010)
- Oxford 2009 Word of the Year: Unfriend
- Oxford 2008 Word of the Year: Hypermiling
- Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2008: Bailout
Issues, Articles, Debates, Happenings, Observations, Etc.
- Paul Stam, NC Republican, Says Schools Chief 'Should Stick To Her Own Knitting', August 14, 2013
- Romney comments irk Palestinians, July 30, 2012
- University of Oxford calls for dropping the Oxford Comma, June 30, 2011
- Bilingual Advantage, NYT Science, May 30, 2011
- Birders Compare Regional Bird Facts, Dialects, May 2011
- Why It Is Beneficial to Study a Foreign Language, Literacy News, 2010
- Do Children Understand Irony? New Study Reveals They Do, Science Daily, Sept. 15, 2010
- Newborns Cry in Different Languages, Science News, 2009
- Debating the Language of Texting, NCCU Campus, January 16, 2008
- English Period (English only classes), Boston Globe, 9-25-08
- Measure 58, English Only, The Oregonian, 9-20-08
- Johnston County Sheriff Apology for Inappropriate Comments, 9-8-08
- LPGA English Only Policy Draws Criticism, 8-29-08
- Golf.com: LPGA's English-only policy is unsportsmanlike and un-American, 8-26-08
- Yiddish Survey - How Americans use Jewish-influenced words, 8-19-08
- PBS News Story “Reading Matters” (1997) (Ebonics Controversy)